The Sun. — London, England, 1836-01-29 00:00:00

GERMAN AND BRUSSELS PAPERS. VIENNA, DEC. 16.—1 t is affirmed in circles which are usually well informed, that the English Captains, Rous and Drinkwater, who accompanied Lord Durham to Odessa, and afterwards, by order of the English Ministry, made, as it is said, an accurate survey of the mouths of the Danube and the Delta of that river, have given to Mr. Fox, the English Minister, on their arrival at Vienna, a very interesting report on the state of affairs in and about Gallacz, the consequences of the advancing of the Russian Quarantine Establishment with respect to the free navigation of the Danube, &c. It should seem, therefore, that the English Ministry has fixed its atten tion on the Black Sea, an d i s en d eavoer ing to regain influence there. ST. PETERSBURG, JAN. 12.—0 n Sunday (the day before yesterday) his Majesty the Emperor gave an audience to the Ambassador Extraordinary of the King of the French, who delivered to him the credentials of his Sovereign. After the audience the Ambassador had the honour to be presented to the Empress, the Imperial Prince Alexander, and to the Grand Duchess Maria. The Rev. Paul Kranitzky, Confessor to the Emperor Alexander and the Empress Elizabeth, died lately, in the 84th year of his age. As the funeral procession reached Isaac's Church, his Majesty the Emperor, whose instructor in religion the deceased had been, joined it, to pay him the last honour by a prayer. VIENNA, JAN. 19.—Five per Cents. Metalliques, 103 3-16 ; Four ditto, 99 19-32 ; Bank Shares, 1,36 1,361 i-.— A/loemeine Zeitung, Jan. 24. FRANKFORT, JAN. 24.—His Serene Highness Duke Fer dinand of Saxe Coburg has arrived here.—Frankfort Ober Postamts Gazette, Jan. 25.' BRUSSELS, JAN 26.—The average prices of Wheat and Rye in the third week of January, (18 to 23,) were 13f. 93c., and SE 88c. respectively, per hectolitre, and the import duties re main accordingly, 76.00 f. and 43.00 per 1,000 kilograldtmes. Yesterday the Court of Assize had to try the action brought against the Editor of the journal Mephistophiles, for calumny, for M. Marie de Vallienne. The substance of the alleged calumny was that the plaintiff, a Frenchman, when Mayor of St. Cloud, in 1825, had received from the prefect of the de partment a sum of 5,000 francs for the relief of the poor, of which he had appropriated above 2,000 francs for his oin ; use. This statement was accompanied with severe reflections; From the report of the trial, which is very voluminous, it ap pears that the counsel for the defendant proved the truth of the allegations to the satisfaction of the jury, who returned a verdict acquitting the Editor, which was received by the per sons present with loud and unanimous aeclamations. BELGIAN FUNDS.—BftusseLs, Jan. 25. Actual Debt, 2% per Cent , Rothschild's Loan, Five per Cent l Ol Loan of City, 1832, Four per Cent lOO Soeiety of Commerce, Four and a Half per Cent M Bank of Belgium, Five per Cent 113!:, —Brussels Papers, Jan. 27. ANTWERP, JAN. 27.—Yesterday evening Sir Edward Dis browe, the new English Ambassador to the Cabinet of the Hague, arrived in this city from Calais, with his suite, in three carriages, and set out again this morning for Holland. Dr. Bowring, Commercial Agent for England, and Mr. Bulwer, Secretary to the English Legation at Brussels, were at Antwerp the day before yesterday. It was said that their visit to our city was connected with a project said to be enter tained by the Belgian Government, of imposing a higher im port duty on English earthenware. We do not know whether our Government really has in contemplation any such project, but we learn from an authentic source that Messrs. Bowring and Bulwer have made circumstantial inquiries here of the principal dealers respecting this article of trade, the importa tion of which into this country is very considerable, and chiefly into the port of Antwerp. DUTCH FUNDS.—AMSTERDAM, JAM. Actual Debt, 2 per ent. Do. do. 5 per Cent. Antort Synod, 4 per Cent 93 15.16 Do. do. 3V, per Cent. Commercial Compan y,4Y6 per Cent lii New ditto 102,4 —Journal du Commerce d' Anvers, Jan. 28. STORM AND SHIPWRECKS. Details of the most distressing description have reached us from Whitehaven. Two vessels, it is ascertained, have been wrecked, with an awful loss of life. The Whitehaven harbour, into which several vessels attempted to get, is de scribed as being the cause of the calamity ; and it is added that the Society of Underwriters in Whitehaven, at a pub lic meeting on Monday, came unanimously to the resolu tion that they would cease underwriting policies on vessels trading to the port until the result of a remonstrance sent to the Trustees of the Harbour be known. The following particulars relating to one of the vessels will be read with interest :—While the Musgrave was in the course of being dashed to pieces, a new subject of inte rest presented itself: The Hero having beat off and on ali night, made another attempt. The Hero is a large smack of the finest description, built for the voyage between Bel fast and London, in the best order, and with a first-rate crew. When she neared, the weather thickened, and a squall blew with terrific violence. This and the consequent wave set her, we thought, a trifle further to leeward than the Musgrave, and she was repeatedly buried in the surf almost to the top. She also fetched inside the outer head, but baffled by the seas, hung in the entrance. We never witnessed a moment of such intense excitement as was felt by the spectators of the imminent danger of this valuable vessel. She hung, it was believed, several minutes, edging on to the wreck of the Musgrave, and was universally given up for lost. Still, however, she held her wind, though she appeared to have entirely lost her headway, and at the aw ful moment when life and property hung on less than a thread, on the mere chance direction of a wave, her bows were seen to emerge past tie jetty, and actually scraping her boom on the works, she in another moment weathered it. A simultaneous cheer burst from hundreds of spectr tors, which was re-echoed by the crew, and in another mi nute the gallant vessel was safe in the inner harbour. n e skill with which s'ae was steered was not less remarkable than her good fortune, without which all would have been of no avail. On the Humber five lives were lost under the most af fecting circumstances. The body of Captain Pepper was found near Paull on Saturday afternoon, and that of El. its near the same place on Sunday morning. The bodies of the others have not yet been found. Loss OF THE BRIDE.—HORRIBLE SOFFERING.—On Friday evening information was received of the loss of the Bride, Captain Bennett. The afflicting news was con veyed in a postscript to a letter :—" Rotterdam, Jan. 19th.—I have opened my letter to announce the appalling intelligence: of the loss of the Bride, with twelve of the crew. The survivors are the carpenter and James Russell. Captain Bennett died fifteen days previous to the vessel being fallen in with ;—the sufferers on board then in such a weak state as not to be able to take hold of a rope thrown to them : they had been twenty-one days on the wreck, and had sustained life by gnawing, from time to time, the dead bodies of their ship-mates, and drinking salt water. The vessel, with the survivors, have arrived in the 'l'exel, from Cuba." THE MARKETS-(THIS DAY). CORN EXCHANGE. There are very moderate arrivals of all descriptions of Grain this week, and a very short return of Flour. The Wheat trade remains firm, and although there was not much doing, the prices are fully supported. Barley, Beans, and Pease unaltered. Oats being a short supply, have obtained rather better prices. Flour continues unaltered. -- ... ARRIVALS. 1 Wheat Barley. Oats. Flour. English ..... 3,420 qrs 1,490 qrs. 1,610 qrs. 2,240 sacks Irish Foreign SMITHFIEL The supply to this day's market dull, at the following ,D MARKET. .t was not great, and the trade was PRICES PER STONE OF SL • s. d. to s. d Interior Beasts o 2 2 4, TO SINK THE OFFA L 5. s. d to s cf. Inferi , ir Sheep t 2 6 Second quality ditto 2 ti 3 2 Prime large Oxen -i 10 4 2 Prime Scots, etc. Large coarse Calves 3 8 5 2 Prime small ditto 5 4 5 8 S•ickling Calves each l2 u 31) 0 SUPPLY, AS PER Cl Sheep. 3,600 Second quality ditto Coarse.weolled ditto Southdown Wailers Large Hogs Small Porkers 4 0 4 4 Quarter old Pigs each 10 U 14 0 ;.ERIC'S STATEMENT. - Calves. Pies 210 I 310 Beasts. 620 NEWOATE AND LEA At per stone, 1 a 41 tos d DENHALL MARKETS. ly the Carcass. Beef, inferior 2 2 2 4 Mutton, inferior - middling 2 6 2 8 - middling prime large . 3 0 3 2 - prime -- prime smal i 4 3 6 Pork, large Veal -small s d tos d 24 2 6 2 8 3 0 34 3 8 3 0 310 44 4 8 According to a census lately taken, there were at at Rome, daring the last year, 5,142 births and 3,977 deaths. The population is increasing, an d amounts to 152,457. Foreigners and Jews are not included in this number, but the aggregate may be estimated at 160,000 souls. The winter is very severe throughout Italy. The olives, as well as the vegetation in general, have suffered. We learn that in the mountains of Albano, even the ga thered fruits are frozen in the houses. The heavy falls of snow have rendered the arrivals of the post very irregular. BIRTHS IN PARlS.—There were born in 1834, 19,119 legitimate children, of whom 9,807 were males, and 9,312 females ; 9,987 illegitimate children, o f w h om 5,079 were males, and 4,906 females. These make together 14,886 males, and 14,218 females, or a gross total of 29,104 children, being 2,644 more than in 1833, in which year the number of illegitimate children was 638 less. Mar riages —In 1834, they were 8,901, being 153 more than in 1833. STEAM EXPLOSION.—Sunday morning the inha bitants of Upper Easton, about a mile from Bristol, were alarmed bl i the bursting of a boiler of a steam-engine at Bayly and Co.'s white lead and patent lead-pipe manufac tory. It was a high-pressure engine, and it is said, was the first time of trial after under going repairs. Three men were killed on the spot, and seven more injured so seri ously, that four of them have since died in our infirmary, where they were immediately conveyed for medical aid. Parts of the roof of the building and boiler were carried in all directions ; a piece of the boilding struck a hole through a two-foot wall 100 yards distant. The distress into which the accident has thrown the families of the poor sufferers is beyond description. The publication of THE SUN NEWSPAPER rommehced this da), at 5 minutes past Three o' Clock. PRICES OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT JNE O'CLOCK. Rank Stock 215!0 151 India Stock -- 3 per Cent Fed... 9l lo ' Ditto Bonds 4 pm. 3 per Cent Cons 9 1 1,5! South Sea Stock — 11, per Cent — Old Annnities - Ditto Red 1011 'A I New Ditto — N e w 314 per Cent 5 9%78 3 per Cent. Annuities, 1751... New 3 per Cent —l Exch. Bills, 1:1,000 Cu 22 pm. Bank Long Annuities to ex pire i Ditto 500 2O 22 pm. Jan 5, IMO '6% 5-16 % • Ditto Small Oct 10, 1534' —l Ditto Commercial — pm. Jan 5, IS6P .....-..' Ditto Advertised — psr. . Jan. 5, ISQO —: Bank Stock for Account — April 5, IF,SO — lndia Stock for Account Jan. 5. 1870 — Consols for Account 9 IY4 Omnium pm. PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS Austrian Bonds Belgian Bonds IC2 Ditto Account . Brazilian Bonds „. .......... Ditto Account Buenos Ayres Bonds Ditto ACcount Chilli In Bonds ..... 49 Ditto Account Columbian 80ud5........ Ditto Account Columbian Bonds, :B•Zi. l3 ti ti, Ditto Account 3 3 14 Danish Bonds Ditto Account Greek Bonds Ditto Bonds, 1445 Ditto Account Mexican Bonds, 5 per cent Ditto Account Ditto. 6 per cent. Ditto Account Neapolitan PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Paid. Per Share. British Iron Company great Western Railway Company lO 24% 4 5 Brighton Railway Company Brighton (Gibbs') Railway 1 1 London and Blackwall Railway London and Dover Railway Company 1 1% 1 4 London and Gravesend Railway Company... London and Greenwich Railway Company 2O 28% London and Southampton Railway Company l5 In t:, 16 North Midland Railway Company 5 83‘16 Danube and Mayne Company lO 8l National Bank of Ireland lO I 3 PRICES OF IRISH STOCKS, DUBLIN, JANUARY 26 3 per Cent. Consols 9 l l /4 IGrand Canal Deb. 6 per cent. &St,' Ditto Reduced - Ditto, 4 per cent S9X vpi, per Cent. Stock r9 Hibernian Bank Ditto New, 1830 St per Cent. Debentures.-- 92 1 4 I National Insurance Co - Bank Stock 214 i City Debentures, 4 per cent... 22 Royal Canal Stock 3% Ballast Office Debentures, 4 . _ .... Grand Canal Stock per cent. . MAILS. Arrived Due. Arrived. ----- Due Arrived. Due. 0 Ameri ca. I I France............ 0 0 Lisbon 0 0 Brazil 0 Buenos Ayres... 0 I Hamburg 0 0 Mexico 2 0 Cartliagena (1 0 Holland 0 0 Sweden I Dublin 0 0 Jamaica 1 Flanders 0 0 Leeward Islands 0 1 Waterford 0 HIGH W ATER AT LONDON BRIDGE TO-MORROW. Nlo: /frig 48 minutes after IL I Erening 0 minutes after 0 THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE. THIS EVENING will be performed Auber's Opera of THE BRONZE HORSE. Yang, Mr. Templeton; Tsing Sing, Mr. H. Phillips; Tchin Kao, Mr. Seguin ; Yanko, Mr. Duruset. Stella, Miss F. Healy; Lo Mangli, Miss Poole; Toajin, Miss H. Cawse; Pcki, Miss Shirreff. After which, the Grand Comic Christmas Pantomime called WHITTINGTON AND HIS CAT. Harlequin, Mr. Eller; Clown, Mr. T. Matthews; Pantaloon, Mr. Tumour; Haramsearam, Mr. W. H. Payne. Columbine, Mies G. Reckie. 'l'o conclude with the new Grand Operatic Drama entitled THE JEWESS. Cardinal de Brogny, Mr. Warde ; Prince Leopold, Mr Cooper; The Grand Provost of Constance, Mr. Giubelei; The Bishop of Constance, Mr. Seguin ; Eleazar, Mr. Vandenhoff. Rachel, Miss E. Tree ; the Princess Eudocia, Miss Forde. Stage Manager, Mr. Cooper—Acting Manager, Mr. Yates. The Box .office is open daily, under the direction of Mr. Parsons, of whom Private and Family Boxes, Stalls, and Places may be obtained. Boxes, 7s. ; Second Price, 3s. 6d.—Pit, 3s. 6d. ; Second Price, 2s. Gallery, cs. ; Second Price, Is.—Upper Gallery, Is. ; Second Price, 6d. HAMBURG, JAN. 19, 1836. T CA HREE DAYS of DRAWING being past, and NEITHER the LARGEST, nor ANY OTHER of the ITAL PRIZES, except ONE, being DRAWN, TICKETS of the SIXTY-SEVENTH HAMBURG GREAT LOTTERY, Warranted Undrawn, are now Selling at 101., say 101. sterling. The next Day of Drawing will be the 24th February, and the LARGEST CAPITAL PRIZE of the Lottery, being a Grand Premium for the Ticket coming up the first drawn Prize of Banco Mares One Thousand, will most probably be drawn on that day. On further approach of the LUCKY DAY. Tickets will rise considerably in price, but till the lath February they will sell at 10/. sterling. Direct without delay to the Contractors, HEINE BROTHERS, in Hamburg. ,A " .-...; ' ~,, . "fit !. 1 ~-,.,' (C' ~.c, k .„ '4 167 :': - .; .1. z .6 ,tj*i . .. ' : ' .:‘ ..V .l?:?ii , ‘.-*; ./ .1) .. 4 - 44'.,k . . e. 'ITtI-7(,4 LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, JANUARY 29, 1836. The proceedings which took place . at Birmingham on the occasion of Mr. O'CONNELL'S visit to that mid-land Metropolis—for a full report of which wc are indebted to the exertions of our enterprising Con temporary, the Morning Advertiser—coupled with the enthusiastic manner i❑ which he was received at Liverpool, must convince the Tories that they have not even the most distant chance of ousting a Ministry which is so firmly established in the good opinion of the people as the MELBOURNE Cabinet. For Mr. O'CONNELL, be it observed, claimed attention, both at Birmingham and at Liverpool, chiefly on the score of his being a warm, though perfectly independent, supporter of Ministers. At both places he emphati - cally stated that for their sakes, and in a full and entire confidence on their sense of justice, he was willing to give up the question of Repeal, and had even gone the length of persuading his fellow -countrymen to give it up also. And how was this declaration of an unhesitating adhesion to Lord MELBOURNE'S Administration received at Bir mingham and Liverpool ? By the most unanimous and enthusiastic acclamations ! Men of all classes— Reformers of all grades--were present, yet not one solitary individual even so much as whispered disappro bation. And were Mr. O'CONNELL'S demands on Government such as they cannot, without titter disre gard to propriety, concede ?—By no means. He simply stipulated for that which no true Whig, who stands firm to his creed, can disallow. He exacts from him nothing more than that his practise shall be in accordance with his theory. Government have already promised the extinction of the Irish tithe system and the Reform of the Irish Corporation—and Mr. O'CONNELL simply re quires of them that they fulfil these pledges to the letter. We look on his reception at Liverpool and Birmingham as one of the most emphatic signs of the times that have yet developed themselves. The whole of the Paris papers of Wednesday have been received. The ever-to-be-talked of Five per Cents, are still the subject of discussion in the political circles of Paris. The Journal des Debats has rather a curious acticle on the subject. The writer alleges that M. HumANN's plan is but an indifferent nostrum for the evil which he prgposes to remedy ; inasmuch as he cannot reduce the interest of the debt without increasing the principal. This is a new doctrine—and one of which the professors of political economy will not boast the discovery. If M. HUMANN had told the Chamber that he had no money wherewith to pay off any part of the principal of the debt, and that the principal should be nominally increased in the hands of the holders of stock, on condition that the interest on the whole should be reduced One per Cent., then would there be something intelligible in the argument of the Debats; though still the scheme of M. Hu- MANN might be advantageous to the country. But the late Finance Minister made no proposal for in creasing the nominal amount of Stock to represent the Five per Cents. ; and the reduction was to take place on the plain and intelligible plea of the interest being exorbitant. The latest accounts from Bayonne are to the 24th, and from Barcelona to the 20th instant. They bring no authentic information on the subject of the engagements between the Christinos and the Carlists on the 16th and 17th. The QUEEN'S troops have returned to Vittoria. According to the Carlist agents, the Christinos had upwards of 1,000 men killed in the battle which took place on the 17th. No reliance can be placed on the truth of these rumours. The Carlists are making every exertion to excite the inhabitants of Barcelona to insurrection, although hitherto without success. General MINA is equally on the alert to prevent every demonstration of public feeling on the part of the lowest orders of the people, who, as a matter of course, are the creatures of the fugitive monks. Perhaps we are not sufficiently ac quainted with the Spanish character to judge of what degree of severity ought to be resorted to, for the pur pose of preserving public order in the disturbed dis tricts ; but we are of opinion that MINA'S measures are too astringent—too sanguinary—to produce the best results possible under the circumstances. If we may judge from the conduct of the Catalonians in the general rising and massages of May 1808, too much severity has as ill an effect upon the populace, as a too relaxed exercise of constitutional authority. PARIS, JAN. 27.—The Journals of Bourdeaux and Bayonne, seeing it is impossible to discover the truth respecting the re sults of the actions which took place on the 16th and 17th, at the Venta d'Arlaban, between Salinas and Vittoria, give the accounts both of the Carlists and Christinos, who respectively claim the victory. It seems that after two days' fighting, in which there was a certain number of killed and wounded on both sides, both parties returned to their former positions. On the side of the Christinos Colonel Narvaes was wounded, and two Colonels on the side of the Carlists. General Cordova highly commends Colonel Bernelle, who commands the Alge rine Legion. It is affirmed, that in consequence of some disagreement at the head-quarters of Don Carlos, the General-in-Chief, Egina, has been suspended from his functions. A letter from the frontier, of the 22d January says : Don Carlos has just ordered two battalions, one of which is the 9th, of Navarre, to proceed to the valley of Amescoa (which is onq, of those that have refused to furnish returns for the Carlist army), to punish the inhabitants, and to seize the arms which have been given them by Don L. Iriarte. But the two Carlist battalions which were ordered to reduce the vallies of Roncal and Amescoa, have not been able to execute their commission, having received information that General Oraa's division of about eight thousand men, was coming by forced marches to the succour of the inhabitants. If the Chris tinos persist in the same system of affording protection to the districts that declare in favour of the Queen, there is no doubt that these examples would be followed by many others." —Sentinelle des Pyrenees. According to the Journal des Debats, it results from the whole of the news received from the frontiers, that the opera tion of General Cordova, which was designed to call the atten tion of the enemy to two points, in order to gain the road to St. Sebastian by a third, failed from want of a proper under standing between the three corps of the army, and principally in consequence of the premature attack, which the General ascribes to the ardour of his troops. The Algesiras of the line, and the Artemise frigate, sailed from Toulon, on the 24th, for the Antilles. We have before stated that they arc to form part_of the squadron under Rear- Admiral Mackau. A letter from Brest, of the 23d, says—" The contrary winds still detain the Jupiter and the Terpsichore, destined for the Antilles. The Jena will go into the road in a few days. The Venus and Juno frigates might soon be ready for sea, if orders came for that purpose, as there are plenty of seamen belonging to the division not yet disposed of."—Messager, Jan. 27. FRENCH FUNDS.—Paats, JANUARY' 27. Five per Cents., 10141 25c. 30c. Four per Cents., 1016 vse. Three per Cents., WV. 70c. 65c. 60c. 50c. Bank Actions, 2,140 f. Rente de Naples, 99f. 10c. 15c. 20c. 3Cc. Roman Five per Cents., 103%U. Spanish Actives, 49% 5 Spanish Differes, 253 . Spanish Passives, 16U%. Cortes Loan, 38 1 4. Three per Cent. Rentes, 23. Belgian Loan, Five per Cents, 10.3%. Portuguese Loan, Five per Cents., 85. Haytian Loan. 415 t. EXCHANOR ON LONDON. One month, paper, 25c. 47 i4c ; money 25r 45, Three months, paper, 251. 35c. ; money, 25f. 32!:-.c n •rs Authersligue. BOURSE, TIMER O'CLOCK.-The market opened at the same prices as yesterday, but they have, since the beginning, been lowering to Of. 55c., sellers. The settling-dry, which is at hand, seems to be the cause. Spanish stock is rather lower, it being generally believed that the Christinos have been beaten. The great speculators were eager to sell. QUARTER TO FOUR.—Five per Cents., 109 f. 40c. ; Three per Cents., SOf. 60c. ; Five per Cents. Spanish, —; Three per Cents. Spanish, —; Cortes, —; Coupons, —; Gueb hards, —; Differes, 19; New Loan, —; Actives, 493 ; Passives, 161-; Ducats, 99 20 ; Romans, 103 e ; Pedros, 85 ; Belgians, 1034- ; Dutch, —f. —c. ; Haytians, 4151. —C. ; —; Brabant Bank, —; Belgian Bank, 13 ; Con tinuation, —c. ; N,2.vr Differcs, ; Five per Cent. NI pe tuelles, We learn from the German Papers that, on the 17th inst., an alarming fire broke out in a large sugar refinery in Berlin. The whole of the sugar-works were destroyed, but the firemen, by pulling down the adjoining houses, prevented the flames from spreading. The destruction of property was very great, but hap pily no lives were lost. The Czar NICHOLAS has succeeded, through the instrumentality of Austria, in clatchiny, one victim to his rage for the exposure of his proceedings at Warsaw. M. GERLE, the Editor of the Prague Gazette, was thrown into prison, and deprived of the Editorship of that Journal, at the instigation of the Russian Ambassador at the Court of Vienna, M. TATISCHEFF, for having published a translation of the CZAR'S speech at Warsaw, accompanied by a commentary which an Austrian censor had not judged too severe. If NICHOLAS act on the principle of his brother, the Grand Duke CONSTANTINE, with re spect to the Press, M. GERLE had better beware of a secret order for his conveyance to Siberia. The kid napping of a few troublesome German Professors, if done privately, and with despatch, would be rather an acceptable service to Prince METTERNICH. We have perused with much pleasure, an unpre tending but valuable little pamphlet on Corporal Pun ishments in the British Army, by Major-General ARMSTRONG, an officer whose rank, intelligence, and long experience, give him a strong claim to public at tention. When a civilian advocates the abolition of the brutal practice of flogging the British soldier, and the substitution of punishments more consistent with humanity, as well as better adapted to promote military discipline, he is immediately met with the silly objec tion that none but military men are qualified to judge of such matters, as if a soldier were a being of a dif ferent nature from all other men. And certainly had we no other standard by which to measure him than the treatment be is subjected to, we should come to the conclusion that, if human, he is at the bottom of the scale ; for the punishment which is considered too barbarous and degrading for the slave is inflicted upon him without mercy or compunction. But the mouths of these objectors are stopped when men of high stand ing in their profession, like Major-General ARM STRONG, stand forward, and denounce the horrid sys tem. The motives of such men are above suspicion— their knowledge cannot be questioned—they speak with an authority which commands universal respect. Major General ARMSTRONG imputes the commis sion of those offences for which flogging is awarded as a punishment, to intemperance in the use of ardent spirits. Here, therefore, he very judiciously com mences his system of reform. It would appear indeed as if, instead of restraining the propensity which leads soldiers, in common with all men of their class in society, who have idle time and spare money on their hands, to indulge in drinking, every possible temptation was held out to entrap them into this fundamental vice. A gin-shop is at present as necessary an appen dage to a barrack as a mess-room. To this source of corruption, under the title of barrack canteen, the soldier is enticed by allurements which it is impossi ble that he should withstand—habits of intoxication are acquired, which naturally lead to breaches of dis cipline, for which the prescribed and legitimate remedy is the cat o' nine tails ! These nurseries of vice and misery should be instantly abolished. The author is of opinion that tea might be without difficulty substituted for spirituous liquors in barracks and quarters, were officers to exert themselves as they might do for that purpose ; and recommends that gymnastic exercises should be introduced into the army, and a taste for reading and mental cultivation encouraged by establishing libraries, by public examina tions, and the distribution of rewards among those who should distinguish themselves. " Thus," hevery j 4u u p s e tl r y . remarks, "good habits, sobriety, emulation, th e d es i re of knowledge and personal distinction, might THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Peruvian Bonds . Ditto Account — Portuguese Bonds B3 Ditto Account Ditto New Bonds 8 3 1414 Ditto Account ....-... ....... 5137,,% Ditto, 3 per cent. 5:35 ,2 'Prussian Bonds Russian Bonds, ISt: ..... Ditto Account Ditto Metallic — Spanish Bonds — Ditto Account — I Ditto Bonds, 15134 48% fN 8.-174 Xi ' Ditto Account 49% i► French, 5 per cent. -.1. —e 4 per cent..... —E —c. 3 per cent. -f. —c. Exchange —E - c- Dutch, 2;4 per cent. '5 4 1 1 Ditto Account — Ditto, 5 per cent lo3%'i 1 Ditto Account THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY, JANUARY 29, 1836 sede the influence of gin and whisky, and produce a happy reformation in the British Army." The Major-General then proceeds to suggest the improvements which he thinks might be adopted, under the various heads of " the enlist ment of recruits—the degraded situation of the private soldier—the organization of the army—the discipline and promotion of commissioned officers." His observations on each of these subjects .appear to us to be marked by good sense, and founded on the results of his own ample experience. We regret that we have not space to-day to extend our remarks on this well-timed production ; but we shall, if possible, return to the subject in a short time. In the meantime let us impress upon the friends of humanity the necessity of bringing this important question without delay before the Legislature. SHIPPING.—(THIS DAY.) (FROM LLOYD'S.) DEAL, JAN. 28.—Wind W. S. W., moderate.—Arrived and sailed for the river the Sarah Ann, Murray, from Sierra Leone ; and Castilian Maid, --, from the westward. Ar rived from the river the Elizabeth, Curry, for the South Seas; Governor M'Lean, Freebody, for Cape Coast ; Carshalton Park, Park, for Jamaica ; Cherub, Blake, for Bayonne ; Ca milla, Mules, for Demerara ; Thomas and Alfred, Reynolds, for :Trinidad • Unity, Pearce, for Ligne; Cambria, Johns, for Fal mou th% Triumph, Trevis, for Cork ; Fanny, Lewis, for Liverpool; Liskeard, Saunders, for Plymouth, and remain with the rest of the outward-bound. Put back the Forester, for Tobago, and Fidele Amico, for Trieste, and remain. TORBAY, JAN. 26.—Arrived off port the Resource, Coombs, from Sydney—sailed the 23d August, and Rio Janeiro the 16th November. LIVERPOOL, JAN. 26.—Arrived the Cofea, Grinshire, from St. Andrew's, New Brunswick; Emerald, —, from St. John's, New Brunswick; Margaret Johnson, Jackson, and Brooklyn, Richardson, from New Orleans ; Cylon, Hamilton, from Mobile ; Grafton, Crowell, from Virginia ; Nantucket, Davis, from Charleston ; Minx, —, from Terceira ; Mail, Price, from Valparaiso ; and Luna, Brown, from Bahia. CLYDE, JAN. 25.—Arrived the Helen, Nicholls, from De merara ; Catherine, Morris, and Terence, M'Lellan, from Savannah. COWES, JAN. 27.—Arrived the Due d'Orleans, Woodliss, from Virginia. PoßrsmouTH, JAN. 28.—Arrived the Numa, Baker, from Ascension ; and Ibis, Harper, from Oporto. Sailed the Con s ante, for Cherburg. PLYMOUTH, JAN. 27.—Wind S. to \V.—Arrived his Ma jesty's ship Pluto, from Portsmouth for the Mediterranean. FALMOUTH, JAN. 27.—Wind W. S.W., moderate.—Ar rived the Miguel, Morrison, Prince, --, and Nile, --, from Valparaiso. The Harlequin, from Iquique to Liverpool, put back to Arica previous to the 16th October, leaky, cargo discharging. The Thornton (coal laden) was abandoned the 24th inst., in a sinking state, forty miles E. of Campo Head—crew saved. The Ringdeve, Gardner, from Stockton, was on Grimsby Flats the 27th instant, leaky. The Brothers, Folder, and the Industryj Lowisa, of Al lonby, are lost—crew saved. The Margaret, of Maryport, Collier, is lost at Kirkcudbright. The Mary Ann Scott, Frenn, and the Esther Jane, Young, both bound to Ireland, are on shore at Kirkcudbright. The Bonitas, Reid, of Sunderland, foundered the 24th inst. —crew saved. The Janet (sloop), laden with grain, was on shore on the Sands of Elie the 24th instant—crew saved. THE FUNDS-(THIS DAY). CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK. Montreal Papers have been received at the North and South American Coffee- House to the 3d of January. We extract the following : " We learn from the Quebec Mercury, that the resolutions proposed by the Hon. Mr. Debartzch in the Legislative Coun cil, were lost after a long debate. ' 6 LOWER CANADA.—the Assembly have, by a majority of 30 to 16, rejected Mr. Caron's proposition to repeal the Act 1 Will. IV. chap. 28, which suspended for a limited time the Act of 17 Geo. 111. chap. 4, regulating the markets. 66 Secretary Walcott delivered following message :- 6 Gosford, Governor-in- Chief.—The Governor-in-Chief trans mits to the House of Assembly a copy of an address made to him by the members of the Trinity-House at Quebec, with estimates of the probable expenses of the Corporation for the ensuing year, and invites the favourable consideration of the House to the suggestions of the Trinity Board, for imposing a small tonnac-e duty on vessels coming up the river St. Law rence, with the view of providing for the increased expendi ture occasioned by the erection of a new light-house, and floating light.' Mr. O'Callaghan reported the following answer to the Ad dress of the 21st inst., for a copy of a communication addressed to the late Governor-in-Chief by the Chief Justices and Puishe Judges : " Gentlemen—After mature consideration, and with every desire to comply with the wishes of the House of Assembly, I feel that I cannot consistently with my sense of public duty, and in the honest exercise of a discretion inseparable from the high office which I fill, accede to the request conveyed in the Address. " Castle of St. Lowis, Quebec, Dec. 28, 1835." Quebec Papers to the Ist of January, have been also re ceived. The ice roads are now formed over to Beaurefort and to the island of Orleans, and to Chateau Ruper, &c. UPPER CANADA.—NIAGARA.—The navigation of the Lake may be considered as nearly at an end—several schooners have been laid up in this harbour. During the past week the wea ther has indicated the most intense temperature of cold. New Brunswick Papers to the 27th of December state, that the weather had moderated materially. " Since our last re port, it is now, and has been, during the past week, more like April than December." Our arrivals this morning are the Calais, Ostend, and Ham burg mails, and ship letters from Jamaica, Sierra Locne, and St. Michael's ; from Mauritius to the 19th of October, Cape of Good Hope to the 14th of November, and New York to the 10th of January. We have received the Journal du Commerce of Antwerp of yesterday, bringing the Amsterdam prices of the 26th May. Five per Cents., 1031 ; 21- per Cents., 55 9-16. Wednesday evening the new Ambassador from England to the Hague, Sir Edward Disbrowe, arrived from Calais, and on the follow ing morning proceeded to Holland. Accounts from Hayti in the French Papers received this morning, state that the pirates have again made their ap pearance ; and that several English vessels have been searched by them, and pillaged on the coast of St. Domingo. THE FUNDS. Consols opened this morning at the closing prices yesterday --91 k for the Account, and 91i. for money : little doing at present. Exchequer Bills, 20 22; India Bonds, 46 ; Bank Stock, 2151; India Stock, 2541-. In the Foreign Market Spanish Active may be quoted 48 49A- ; Portuguese, 831 ; Three per Cents., 531 ; Mexi can, 371 38 ; Colombian, 331 ; Dutch, 21, per Cents., 54 j ; Five per Cents., 103+. ONE 0' CL 0 CK. By an official letter, dated San Sebastian, 21st inst., the Governor Inate had received despatches from Gen. Cordova. The contents are as follow : " General Evans and the British legion attacked and took, on the 19th, the fort of Guenara, after an obstinate resistance of the Carlist troops, who fled, and the garrison surrendered to the legion. General Cordova took the heights of Cordil leras, at Arlaban, and General Espartero took Salvatierra and Villa Real de Alava. " Being now masters of this position, the whole of the army intends to attack Mendragon, Onate, and Segura, where the remaining army of the Carlists are with Don Carlos." In the New Brunswick paper of Dec. 26, there appears a petition to the King from the magistrates, merchants, lam berers, and other inhabitants 'of the county of Castletown, in the province of New Brunswick, relating to the existing rates of duties payable on foreign and colonial wood. HALF-PAST ONE. Consols continue firm, at 91i4 for the Account, and 91A for Money, with little doing. Exchequer Bills, 20 22 ; India Bonds, 4 6 ; Bank Stock, 215 i ; India Stock, 254 i. In the Foreign Market, Spanish Active Bonds is not so good as in the morning, and was done at 481—at present 481 49 ; Portuguese, 831 ; Three per Cents., 53 4 ; Colombian, 33i; Mexican, 37i 38; Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents., bq 55. THREE 0' CL 0 CK. Consols for the Account, 91i 4. The Baroness Venninghen (once Lady Ellenbo rough) whose recent elopement h a d b een announce d in a Morning Paper, is now stated to have been resident in Munich for many months, and the tale, says the same Journal, has not the slightest foundation. Does this explanation" affect the reality of the " romance" that has appeared in certain the Court Jour na l, an d i s still exciting such c uriosity certain distinguished circles ? Saturday, we are informed, will bring some revelations upon this point ; i n addition to some private notes from Mayfair, published in an original form in this fashionable publication. JERSEY.—The outrages and robberies of the past week have diminished in number. AN AMERICAN ADVERTISEMENT. — " Persons i n debted to the Tuscaloosa Boot Store are respectfully so licited to pay their last year's accounts forthwith. It is no use to honey the matter ; payments must be made at least once a year, or I shall run down at the heel. Every body says, how well that man Woodruff is getting on in the world ; when the fact is, I have not, positively, .spare c hange enough to buy myself a shirt or a pair of breeches. My wife is now actually engaged in turning an old pair wrong side out, and in trying to make a ne w shirt out of two old ones. She declares that in Vir nia, where she was raised, they never do such things, and that it is, moreover, a downright vulgar piece of business altogether; Come, come, pay up, pay up, friends. Keep peace in the family, and enable me to wear my clothes right side out. You can hardly imagine how much it will oblige, dear Sirs, the public's most obedient, most obliged, and most humble servant." LITERATURE. BRITISH AND FOREIGN REVIEW—No. 111. Ridgway : London, 1836. The great merit of this Periodical—so far as it has yet gone, for this is only the third Number—is its utter freedom from the cant and intolerance of sectarianism. It is neither exclusively Utilitarian like the " West minster ;" exclusively Tory like the " Quarterly ;" nor exclusively Whig like the " Edinburgh ;" but holds on a straight-forward, independent course, scorning the trammels of party, and acknowledging no patron but the people. This free spirit pervades all its papers, and, with us, forms their chief recommendation ; for nothing narrows the mind like prejudice, however amiable, or attachment to party, however conscientious. Besides, the days of stubborn partizanship are fast going by for ever, except among the Tories ; and even with these, it is a principle of which the majority, if they could, would gladly disembarrass them selves. 'Whether as senator or journalist, who ever henceforth sires to attain success, must make his appeal direct to the people. This the " Review" before us does in its every essay ; and in none more triumphantly than in its article on the " Poles and the Czar," which will strike an electric chord in the breast of every generous reader. The Reviewer truly ob serves, that the period of Poland's restoration is nearer at hand than most people imagine ; and shows how un generously—we purposely use the mildest term—it has been retarded by the time-serving policy of the Whigs of England, and the Doctrinaires of France. Had these Cabinets combined at the fitting season, and . with becoming energy, to demand the re-establishment of Polish independence, the Russian cannon would not now have been insultingly pointed against the city of Warsaw. But our vacillation has new edged the Czar's energy. The Northern bully is the child of Southern apprehension. It is singular how many years this dread of Russian influence has obtained among the European Cabinets. All profess equally to dislike, yet all equally eschew, the slightest interfe rence with it. Even so far back as 1814, when Bri tish valour, backed by British gold, had emancipated Europe from the thraldom of Napoleon, Russia was the one, great giant against whose will such means were felt to be unavailing. In vain Lord Castlereagh— supported too, be it observed, by France and Austria —insisted on the restoration of Poland ; Alexander was averse to it ; " his troops," he said, " were in pos session ;" and this argument was held to be decisive. It is not, however, so much the Tories as the Whigs, who are to blame for this subserviency to the St. Petersburgh Cabinet. Polish emancipation was never a favourite question with the former ; whereas, with the latter, it was for years their darling hobby. Not a Session elapsed, but they mounted—spurred—and suffered it almost to run away with them. Mark the terms in which Lord Grey, in the year 1814, ad dressed the patriot Kosciusko ! " GENERAL,--I request you to accept my thanks for your letter of the 20th of May, which was delivered to me by Count Krukowiecki, and for the flattering expressions with which you have been pleased to honour me. Be assured that it is im possible to take a deeper interest than I do in the fate of Poland. The calamities of that brave but unfortunate people—their constancy and their virtues, of which you, General, have given personally so illustrious an example, cannot fail to excite the sympathy of hearts truly im bued with the principles of humanity and justice. I am convinced that an enlightened policy is equally favour able to their just claims. To the first violation of the sacred principles of general liberty which took place in the partition of Poland in 1772, and those which followed in 1793 and 1795, ought to be attributed all the dangers to which the whole of Europe has since been exposed, and front which we have so happily escaped. There can exist no real security against the return of these dangers, if Poland remain excluded from the benefit of the general deliverance, which, in order to be perfect, ought to be guaranteed by the solemn recognition of the rights and the independence of nations. If the Powers which seek to profit by the injustice, and which in the sequel have suffered so much could learn the true lesson from experience, they would perceive that their security and their mutual tranquillity would be better preserved by re-establishing among them, as a State truly independent, that country which a false policy has so cruelly oppressed. These sentiments, General, are profoundly engraven in my soul ; and you may be assured, that, in order to declare them loudly, I shall neglect no occasion in which I may believe I can do so with effect. If, during the late debates in Parlia ment, I have not dwelt so much on this subject as 'could have desired, THIS PROCEEDS FROM THE CERTAINTY WHICH I HAD, THAT I COULD IN NO WAY INFLUENCE THE POLICY OF THE GovERNmENr : and the fear of adding, perhaps, to the dangers which threaten the fate of a people, whose cause is so dear to me, but whom present circumstances deprive me of all hope of serving. Receive the most sincere assurances of my respect and my admiration, and believe me, General, your very faithful and humble servant, (Signed) GREY." His Lordship, it will be seen, here states expressly that his only reason for being silent in Parliament on the subject of Poland, arose from a conviction of his inability to do her service ; thereby implying that the instant he was possessed of sufficient influence, that very moment he would exert it in her behalf. Well, sixteen years pass away—Toryism is subdued—the Whigs gain the ascendant—and Lord Grey becomes Prime Minister of England ! Where, now, is his zeal in the cause of Poland ? Does he remember his letter to Kosciusko, and hasten to redeem the pledge therein volunteered ? Not he I Though he sees this gallant people struggling against the overwhelming power of their oppressors, and eclipsing the heroism of Greece and Rome in the most heroic period of their annals ; be resigns them without a sigh to their fate, on the poor pretext that the time is not yet ripe for action—just as if the time was ever ripe to him who is interested in delay I We have no desire to recal old grievances, but we shall ever consider the desertion of Poland by the Whigs as the one ineffaceable blot in their character. They may talk as they please about the embarrassments of their position, but we reject the plea ; for they could grapple with and overcome far greater difficulties, when their own interests were at stake. However, despite Whig vacillation, and Doc trinnaire chicanery, Poland shall yet rise from her • ashes, and the Russian bear be beaten back to his Scythian forests. The article entitled " English Parliamentary Elo quence" is carefully penned, but by no means in a first rate spirit. The Reviewer tells us nothing about Canning that we did not know before, with this excep tA, that he " ranks with Burke, Fox, Pitt and Sheridan in genius, and was a more accomplished orator." This is sad hyperbole. In the external graces of elocution, Canning may certainly have been more " accomplished" than any of the great names we have just quoted ; but as for his ranking with, or even ap proximating to, Burke and Fox in " genius," never was such an error in judgment. Compared with the one in variety of knowledge and wealth of imagination, or with the other in the skill and vigor of his dialectics, he was as a rush-light compared with the sun. He delighted, indeed, by his attic wit and melodious Pe riods ; but he never astonished by his imagination, nor convinced by his understanding. The best speech Canning ever delivered, is but little ele vated above elegant common-place. When serious, he was always shallow and artificial, with a dash of rhetorical glitter that brought back on us the recollec tion of the precocious. Eton boy ; and is as far removed from any thing like genius —at least in the sense in which Burke was a genius —as it is possible to con ceive. His wit, however, his polished sarcasm, and, above all, the appositeness of his classical allusions — each in its way was exquisite ; and if these faculties alone were sufficient to constitute an orator, never was a more accomplished one than Canning ; but if we allow him to be first•rate, in what rank are we to place Burke, Fox, and, more particularly, Chatham ? We shall be according him an ample measure of justice, if we station him among the second rates, side by side with Pitt and Sheridan. Posterity will give him , - no higher rank, nor can the most entnusiastic.his admirers justly demand it for him. The character of Lord Bolingbroke is ilithfully pourtrayed in an essay devoted to this somewhat :rite , but still interesting, theme, and which, besides, is %Noll worth reading, from the minuteness and accuracy of its biographical details ; and the success with which the reviewer defends Swift from the charges of avarice, hypocrisy, and irreligion, brought against him by Mr. Cooke, St. John's biographer. Without entering into the nature of this defence, we need only refer our readers to Hawkesworth's Memoirs of Swift, where h 3 will find the calumny respecting the Dean's " irreli ligion" triumphantly refuted. Mr. Cooke has acted unwisely in reviving these exploded slanders. Had he been a man of strict research, he could not but have seen that there was not the slightest foundation for them. Throughout his life, Swift, like Pope, was a man far more sinned against than sinning, as must ever be the case with great satirists ; for nothing so acutely feels, or so malignantly reseLits, an affront to its vanity as common-place, and it is of common-place that the bulk of society is made up. The " Lord Chancellorship" discusses Sr Edward Sugden's recently published pamphlet on the appel late jurisdiction of the Court of Chancery, in terms, temperate indeed, and guarded, but by no means it-tat tering to the self-love of the learned author. " Hin dostan" is a notice of Miss Roberts's late gossipping volumes on life and manners in the East ; and the article on " French Diplomacy" speaks out in g manly and straight-forward spirit on the prolific sub ject of the " irresolute and double-sided policy Of Louis Phillippe," as respects the difficulties which " arose out of the Polish revolution." THE CITY OF LONDON CORPORATION ANNUAL. Effingham Wilson. There is a world of difference between a punster and a humourist, as every reader of this Annual will not fail to perceive. In the hands of such a writer as Theodore Hook a report of the proceedings aria speeches delivered at the several Wardmotes of the City of London on St. Thomas's day, would have supplied materials for one of the most amusing volumes in the language. No such meed of praise is due to the lumbering contrivance which is here passed off as a vehicle of wit and drollery. TALES OF THE GLENS ; WITH BALLADS AND SONGS. BY THE LATE JOSEPH GRANT. Edinburgh. Fraser and Co. 1836. There is something divinely healing in the influence of that sorrow which is awakened by the perusal of the literary remains of genius consigned to an early grave- W e are staggered at the idea of such a cessation of the labours of a mind filled with " light from Heaven and intuitively, as it were, follow the disembodied spirit to its habitation in regions of never-ending hap piness. We shall not attempt to criticise the con tents of this little posthumous volume—the production of an unknown and neglected child of genius. Those who will look to us for criticism on these simple Tales and Ballads, after reading the following affecting memoir of the life of the rural Bard by a kindred spirit, Robert Nicoll, must read it with feelings far different from those which we experienced on conclud ing its perusal : " Joseph Grant, the author of this little volume, wag born on the 26th of May, 1805. His parents were pf the rank of small farmers ; and as soon as he was able to ur dergo the labour, Joseph was employed in tending his ther's cattle, or other light labours, during the surnote'r season, while in the winter he was allowed to pick up, best he could, the rudiments of learning at the school 0 ' the parish. The real knowledge which is attained at even the best conducted educational institutions, is of very strap a mount—it relates to words, not thi ngs ; b ut J osep h Gra n .. needed only the key from others—needed only to be se t is the right path—he was able and willin g to open the door --- to pursue the journey hi mse lf. From his earliest years he was a keen reader,—a devourer of every book which h e could lay his hands upon. Even during his meals he etr ployed himself in adding to his store s o f k now l e d ge ; 121'k , 11 ' his access to books must, from the situation of hi s h om e, the wilds of Kincardineshire, have been limited ; and he often lamented his want of good books in his early days t°, the writer of this Sketch, and to that want may be trace d the roughness which his prose style sometimes exhibit!. But Joseph Grant was not a man whose talents lay . In one direction only, His mind was ardent, imaginative, and romantic ; but above all, he had a fund of comity° sense, and good and upright principle, which made bim great as a man as well as a poet. Keen as was hig a pp e tite for books, for knowledge, f or en li g ht enme nt, h e never for one moment allowed his love of literature t° deter him from his labour, or from the duties which 1 station rendered incumbent on him, He did not think the power of expressing lofty and noble thoughts—the appreeiv tion of mental and material beauty, though possessed bY man, excused him from fulfilli ng th e d ut i es o f lif e ; an d in this Joseph Grant was an example to many who think that poetry should be not only enjoyment and happiness to the mind, but food and clothes for the body. He often I ° - mented the cold-heartedness of the world in not cncourar ing the struggling, but he had more manly feeling than to think that the world should support him like a beggar. En' couragement was all he asked—aught else he would hav e scorned as a man should who has a head and hands. ,c A few sentences will suffice to tell the story of Joseph Grant's life. It was a long struggle for knowledge au. fame. From childhood, upwards, he continued fulfilling lu s part as a son from year to year, and gathering knowledo as lie grew. His great enjoyment was to ramble antet the hills of Kincardine and Aberdeenshires, and feast r eyes with the beauty of the ma t er i a l wor ld h e l ove d so and in latter years enthusiastic were his descriptions of tL' e scenes and places h e th us v i s i te d, an d o f the happ i ne ss i. ,:„ thus enjoyed. From hi s ear li er years i t h a d been hit, wish'" " That he, for pair auld Scotland's sake, Some usefu' plan or book might make ; Or sing a sang at least !" and from the age of 14 he composed verses. In 1828 h e published " Juvenile Lay s ," a co ll ect i on of verses ; an d 1830 a small volume, entitled, " Kincardineshire Traw c i tions." In these volumes there are beautiful th o ughts al l s images, but both th e i r au th or w i s h ed forgotton. At - later period of his life the author contributed several %slu beau' tiful Tales and Sketches to " Ch am b ers ' s Journal," e-- elicited the marked and public approbation of these ge nes tlemen. " In the year 1831, Joseph Grant engaged as an ter sistant to a merchant in Stonehav en ; b u t his mat, giving up business in a few m o nths, h e r et urne d to his ther's farm of Affrusk. Subsequently he c a me to Dunde e ; and was at first employed as a clerk in a newspaper off e (the Dundee Guardian), and latterly in that of M r . Ale x ander Miller, writer, by whom he was much esteemed, to use Mr. Miller's own words, " no less for the zeal and fide' lity with which he devoted himself to his new and irksoat, e employment, than for his amiable and attractive di s pose sition." It was whilst in this gentleman's employment that' by the solicitation of his friends, he was prevailed u pon t ° send to press the present volume, which he never lived t ° finish. " In Dundee, Joseph Grant found many friends—mil who COULD and DID apprec i ate hi m as h e deserved. There was little to att rac t no ti ce i n his outwa r d appearanc e, a e his peculiar l arge fi ne so ft dark eye ; but it may b e : state d ` that Joseph Grant was never an hour in a man's corliPe ° , b without maki ng him a friend ; and of hi m it t ru ly may a said—he never lost a friend nor made an enemy: Inste° l of diminishing, his attachment to study seemed to i n creo, after he came to Dundee ; and his friends, while tb e i Y a saw that from perseverence such as his greatness w°?,,b arise, feared that the spirit would soon kill the body wh i l, it inhabited. Their forebodings, alas! proved too tr ° He was seized with a cold, which, falling on his luegS; so on reduced him to a weak state. A c ti ng on the %i s vice of his Dundee friends, he returned t o b rea the rg native air, and they fondly expected to see him in a sb ° c l time again among them invigor a t e d an d re f res h e d, e„ " ii , ready to follow the path of lite rary g l ory wh i c h seeme d or i ,e ho ing up for him. But such was never to be the case. bowl was to be broken by the fountain—the sun was t° gb down at noon—a treasure was to be taken from the ea r b .s ere men had discovered its value. After his return t ° father's house, he gra d ua ll y grew weaker and weaker, 'l%. death became certain. He met it as a man an d a Chr t l y tian—as one who had used his talent of gold, as not a b i r it ing it. Ev en w h en delirium came over his weakened 51)0,s —when th e sou l spread i ts h i d d en myster i es before °cs, eyes—its imag er i es were o f l ove , an d li g h t , an d h aP Pi ° ,,,o and joy. O n t h e 14th o f A pr il, 18 35, hi s mot h er , wT o f he loved t en d er l y, an d w h o h a d never l e f t t h e s i c k be u to her noble son, told him he was dying. He desired ba r r, Come near, and referring her to the words of the Sao'